Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
Family:  Carrot (Apiaceae)
Hardiness:  The plant will perform well in any garden in the summertime and is a good winter crop in maritime gardens or in the winter greenhouse, even if the greenhouse is unheated. 
Hardy annual native to Europe, growing to about 12 inches and with a mounding habit.  Chervil has a reputation of repelling slugs.  The plants are petite and the flavor is very fine.  It is a gourmet parsley-like plant that is used in seasoning vegetables, meat dishes, omelettes, soups, and for making salad dressing.  This is a culinary herb that is also used as a diuretic and blood-purifier and carminative (digestive agent). The herb is experiencing a renaissance of popularity, and is very saleable in salad mixes or as a plant in a pot.  Prefers a cool, moist location where it will put on a great deal of green herb without bolting.  Cutting back regularly and sowing in succession will keep chervil herb coming to the tabvle throughout the season.  Very fast to make edible leaf.  Direct seed in the spring garden.
Open Pollinated 100 seeds/pkt.

(Ilipesh)       
Family:  Mint (Lamiaceae)   
Annual.  60 days to flowers.

Self-seeding, miniature desert grower with bright purple flowers in whorls.  Like the circulation stimulant Dan-shen (which is also available on this website), Ilipesh contains the compound known as “tanshinone,” a circulation stimulant that inhibits blood clotting and is an anti-seizure medicine.  Was used historically to treat strokes, therefore the translation of its name “to wake the dead.” 

100 seeds/pkt., Open Pollinated

(Mexican Chia)
Family:  Mint (Lamiaceae)
Annual.  90 days to flowers, 120 days to seeds
Native to South America.  Makes succulent, bright-green, bushy plants up to 4 feet tall.  The seed is made into a stimulating beverage, high in soluble fiber and oil.  Regulates sugar metabolism.   300 seeds/pkt., open pollinated

(Japanese Lantern)
Physalis franchetii

Powerfully fun plant for adults and kids alike.  I played with these incessantly as a child.  Plant prefers full sun to part shade and poor to regular garden soil.  It does spread by runners, but pretty much refuses to grow in pots.  Chinese medicinal herb. 
Organic 100 seeds/pkt.

Family:  Madder (Rubiaceae)
Annual.  90 days to maturity
Creeping and clinging ground dweller native to fields, woods and waste places of North America and Europe.  The juice of the fresh herb is a premier lymphatic tonic.  Cleavers is also an excellent diuretic and is used for treating upper respiratory illness.  It is intensely green and has the energizing aura of the spring tonics--intermediate between chickweed and nettles.  Plant prefers regular garden soil or woodland soils, shade to sun.  Sow in pots or directly in the prepared seed bed.  May take up to 60 days to germ, and germinates best in cool soils.  Give 30 days cold, ,moist germination before sowing in standard greenhouse scenario for best results when using controlled planting technique.  Otherwise scatter the seed on open ground and press in--the plants will respond when conditions are right. 50 seeds/pkt., Certified Organically Grown

Clover and Poppies cover crop mix, by the pound, organic
A beautiful mix of:  Clover, Red; Clover, Crimson; Poppy, California; and Poppy, Flanders.  Pre-inoculated.  Sow anytime for an ongoing display.  Sow 100 g per 500 square feet; 1/2 lb per 1,000 square feet; 10 lbs per acres.  Grows 1 to 2 feet tall.  $24.00/lb, organic

Please note:  A $3.00 fixed charge will be added to the shipping for this heavy item.

Clover, Red  (Red Clover) Trifolium pratense

Red clover is a biennial that flowers in the second year.  In warm winter areas it may be sown in the fall for an overwintering cover, or in cold winter areas it may be sown in the spring or in the summer.  The plant is powerfully effective for loosening poor, rocky or clay soils and for fixing atmospheric nitrogen in its roots and thus feeding crop plants after being turned under.  One time we planted red clover in half our field and left the other half in perennial grasses.  When the tractor guy plowed through the field he commented that the machinery dug inches deeper into the clover side--and that was after only 3 months of growth.  Feed the soil and the soil will feed you...

Oh, and also, tea of dried red clover flowers is probably the most significant adjunct therapy for anyone suffering from cancer of any kind...
Organically grown 500 seeds/pkt.

We offer organically certified red clover seed by the pound for cover cropping.  Call us at (541) 846-6704.

(Dang-shen)
Family:  Bellflower (Campanulaceae)
Hardiness: to -15 degrees F (pretty cold)
Twining and vining perennial native to China.  "Poor Man's Ginseng" builds chi and tonifys the blood. A fascinating climbing plant with bell-shaped blossoms. The roots are crunchy, very sweet, quite delicious.  The herb in TCM is the pressed and dried, rolled root that is sugary and chewy.  Highly recommended. Plant prefers full sun to part shade and something to climb on--preferably another plant but lacking that at least a string.  Sow in spring. Watch out for gophers, these roots are tastier than carrots!  
200 seeds/pkt., Certified Organically Grown

Family: Madder (Rubiaceae)
Protect from frost.
Evergreen bush to small tree, native to Ethiopia.  Protect from frost.  The bushes are glossy-leaved and handsome, bearing white flowers that exude delicious aromas.  These seeds are from the famous Hawaiian cultivar "Blue Mountain" (Kona), and they are recent and viable seeds.  Sow warm, in warm greenhouse or under grow lights. Scarify lightly to break the dried sac that surrounds each seed, then plant 1 inch deep.  Germination within 3 months, faster with bottom heat.  Coffee prefers a warm and humid environment, and does best in mixed plantings on rolling ground, where it can be planted as an understory to larger trees.  Coffee makes a very handsome indoor plant, greenhoused plant, or can be plated outdoors in the tropics.  Plants live up to 100 years.  5 Seeds/pkt., Open Pollinated